You know, most of the time I find this planet is not such a great place to
live in - but then, there are times which for a brief moment something makes
you think otherwise: like, for instance, when Jonathan Leffler rates your
humble piece of code ahead of his own.

(Self centered brag warning!)
Speaking of which, I did spend some time, a while back, to rip off the
Structured Query Scripting Language interpreter out of my 4gl application
framework and autoconfiscate it, so now you get a curses and cli user
interface, 4gl and esql/c libraries, db2 connectivity, all in a single
package, which you build with the reassuringly familiar

../configure; make; make install

sequence.

Requirements are an Informix esql/c of some description (I'd say from version
5 onwards), useful options c4gl (which can be used in lieu of esql/c), the
readline library, and an esql/c aware DB2 installation.

Find the tool at http://www.4glworks.com/sqsl.htm. It is also somewhere in the
IIUG software archives.

A word of warning - the ripping was quick, dirty and done with a butcher's
knife. In short, it does not necessarily make a pretty sight, nor is it
particularly fit...

Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> zombie wrote:
>
>>I installed informix client SDK software on a client system. The applications
>>work fine. Some of our developers want to be able to use dbaccess from this
>>machine that has the informix client sdk installed.
>>
>>How do I get dbaccess on a machine that does not have the informix server
>>installed.
>
>
> You cheat and copy it from a machine that has it on there. Beware of
> dependencies on message files. This is not a recommendation - it is
> absolutely unsupported, and probably contravenes your licence agreement.
>
> You decide that SQLCMD from the IIUG Software archive is an adequate
> substitute.
>
> You conclude the http://www.4glworks.com/ provides a better substitute.
>

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Ciao,
Marco
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